SpamTitan v7.00 Included Bitdefender Anti-Virus Engine

A new version of TitanHQ’s cloud-based anti-spam service and anti-spam software was made available on March 5, 2018. SpamTitan version 7.00 incorporates patches for recently identified flaws in the ClamAV antivirus engine and a change to the primary AV engine used by the solution.

The main anti-virus engine of SpamTitan version 7.00 is supplied by the Romanian firm Bitdefender. Bitdefender is an award-winning antivirus engine that provides strong email protection against malware, viruses, and ransomware. Combined with the secondary AV engine – ClamAV – users take advantage of excellent protection against email-based malware and ransomware attacks. The dual AV engines see to it that malicious software is not delivered to end users’ inboxes via email attachments.

The change to Bitdefender was the obvious choice and TitanHQ is planning to further its strategic relationship with the Romanian cybersecurity business over the coming weeks and months. The amendment to the primary AV engine will be unnoticeable to existing users, who will still be protected from malicious threats.

The update to the most recent version will not happen automatically. Customers who have ‘prefetch of system updates’ enabled on their SpamTitan installations will be able to see the newest version in their list of available updates and can manually trigger the update to the new version. Customers who do not have that option turned on need to “check for updates” via their user interface.

Customers have been advised to review the documentation accompanying the latest version before installation as it includes important information on how the update should be applied. TitanHQ explains that it is not possible to update from v4 or v5 of the platform to SpamTitan version 7.00 without initially installing version 6 of the platform.

Customers should remember that the update must be applied before May 1, 2018 to ensure continued protection, as support for the Kaspersky AV engine – used in all versions of SpamTitan prior to v7 – will come to an end on that date. TitanHQ has also informed customers that support for v4 and v5 of SpamTitan will also cease from May 1, 2018.

SpamTitan v7.00 includes patches for the following flaws: CVE-2017-12374, CVE-2017-12375, CVE-2017-12376, CVE-2017-12377, CVE-2017-12379, CVE-2017-12380. All of those flaws exist in ClamAV. The most recent version also improves protection against DoS attacks and should be run as soon as possible. The update will take around 10-20 minutes to run.